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Crews broke ground today on eight border wall prototypes in a fenced-off area in Otay Mesa that is expected to be a construction zone for the next 30 days, U.S. officials confirmed. Four of the prototypes will be made of concrete while the other four will be made of alternate materials. All of the...

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Equifax announced Tuesday that its chief executive would step down effective immediately, weeks after the credit-reporting company disclosed a massive data breach. Richard Smith, who also served as chairman of the Equifax board, is the latest casualty at the company as a result of the breach, which...

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President Donald Trump on Monday retweeted a Twitter account that invoked the memory of Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinals football player who left the NFL to join the U.S. Army Rangers in 2002 and was killed in action in 2004. Marie Tillman, Pat’s widow, is making it clear she doesn’t want...

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Passed over for higher command, U.S. Navy Adm. Scott Swift on Monday announced his unexpected retirement as commander of the Pacific Fleet. "I have been informed by the Chief of Naval Operations that I will not be his nominee to replace Adm. (Harry) Harris as the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command,”...

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A week after Vista cut the ribbons on two long-awaited skate parks, the city has temporarily closed both of them after people stole phones and other items from a city employee locking up for the night. The employee was not harmed, but the incident heralded an unfortunate start for the parks, which...

Research on a drug for cocaine and nicotine addiction has attracted a $10.8 million federal grant to ready it for human clinical testing. Nicholas Cosford, a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, leads the project. The potential drug shows signs of effectiveness in rat...

Federal, state and local law enforcement continued to prepare for the start of construction of prototypes for President Donald Trump’s long-sought border wall in Otay Mesa, though agencies remained tight-lipped about when work will begin. Miles of temporary chain-link fencing surround a huge section...

San Diego officials want to annex into Mission Trails Regional Park a giant swath of open land called East Elliott, where previous proposals have included large housing subdivisions and a new city dump. East Elliott’s 2,300 acres of barren hillsides and flatlands are adjacent to the north boundary...

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With one new hepatitis A death reported, county leaders unanimously re-ratified San Diego’s ongoing public health emergency Tuesday morning. The Board of Supervisors must approve the emergency declaration every two weeks for it to remain in effect. It was first declared Sept. 1. Dr. Wilma Wooten,...

Come January, the “Westworld” concept of lifelike sex robots will get one step closer. That’s when a San Marcos company will unveil Harmony, an anatomically correct sex doll with a patented animatronic talking head with programmable personality and memory. News of creator Matt McMullen’s latest...

The Kansas City Chiefs are 3-0 and alone atop the powerful AFC West division, and it appears this might be their best chance in decades to reach the Super Bowl. Giving them more reason to smile Sunday after defeating the Los Angeles Chargers on the road, the rival Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders...

A highly unusual sequence of events highlights the dangers of a collision sport and each player’s tenuous place in it. After initial reports Sunday that Darren Sproles suffered a broken arm, it was reported Monday that he also tore his ACL on the same play Sunday against the New York Giants. The...

A San Diego federal judge has ruled in favor of the Border Patrol in a lawsuit that alleged the agency had a policy authorizing the use of deadly force against rock throwers — a policy that contributed to the death of a Mexico man at the border fence. Jesus Yañez Reyes, 40, was fatally shot near...

Federal prosecutors have charged USC assistant men’s basketball coach Tony Bland with conspiracy to commit bribery, soliciting a bribe and wire fraud as part of a wide-ranging series of indictments related to fraud and corruption in college basketball. Arizona assistant Emanuel Richardson, Auburn...

The Chula Vista firefighter who was handcuffed by a highway patrol officer at a freeway crash site last month has filed a claim against the agency, claiming he was arrested “with malice.” Firefighter/Engineer Jacob Gregoire told reporters Tuesday that he doesn’t want to file a lawsuit, but hopes...

It could have easily been 1987 in San Diego Friday night when the iconic Irish band U2 performed its revolutionary album “The Joshua Tree” in its entirety, all 50 minutes and 11 seconds of it in chronological order. It could have been 1987, but it wasn’t. “Nothing’s changed; everything’s changed,”...